Steinborn (Saxony)

Steinborn is a deserted area in the Königsbrücker Heide nature reserve on the site of the former Königsbrück military training area in Saxony .

geography

location

The village of Steinborn, surrounded by fields and meadows, was four kilometers northwest of Koenigsbrück on the northern edge of the Laußnitzer Heide . The street perch village with a corridor stretched on the right side of the Pulsnitz from the meadows in the Niedergrund to the terrace above the Pulsnitz valley. The village was surrounded by several prominent peaks: north of Königshöhe ( 195  m ), east of Table Mountain ( 180  m ), south-east of Haselberg ( 190  m ) and southwest of Eichberg ( 167  m ). The Pulsnitztalmühle was north-west of the village on the Meissen side, and the Grünmetzmühle to the south. The Vorwerk Steinborn was south of the village behind the Haselberg on the way to the mountain houses (Weißbacher Lehnsflur).

Neighboring places

Röhrsdorf , ( Sella ) †, ( Krakau ) †	( Quosdorf ) †	( Zietsch ) †, Gottschdorf
( Bohra ) †		Schmorkau
Glauschnitz , Tauscha	Stenz , Laußnitz	Weißbach , new warehouse

history

The first mention of Steinborn dates back to 1418. The village was in the northwest of the kingdom of Bohemia belonging Oberlausitz , over a ford by the Pulsnitz whose running the border to here Meissen marked. Over the years the place name remained unchanged, only the spelling varied ( Steynborn ). Steinborn had been parish in Cracow since 1540 .

From 1566 on, the village was subject to the Wachau manor . The Steinborn manor has been documented since 1617. As a result of the Peace of Prague , Steinborn was ceded to the Electorate of Saxony in 1635, along with all other places in both Lusatia . From 1696 the manor Steinborn had the manorial rule over the village. After the unification of the Steinborn manor with the royal lordship of Königsbrück , the village became subject to the lordship in 1777. From an administrative point of view, Steinborn belonged to the Bautzen district from 1777 and from 1843 to the Bautzen district court. In the first half of the 19th century the royal rule of Königsbrück had the Steinborn Vorwerk built far outside Steinborn, on the Weißbacher meadows behind the Haselberg ; the single farm was later commonly referred to as "Rittergut Steinborn" , the original manor , located in Niederdorf above the Pulsnitzfurt on the Mühlwiese, was given up.

With the reorganization of the Saxon administrative structures, Steinborn was assigned to the Königsbrück court office in 1856 and to the Kamenz administration in 1875 . In the vicinity of the village there were several smaller gray rock quarries , as well as two mills on the Pulsnitz. However, both mills were not on Steinborn's corridors; the Grünmetzmühle, located upstream, belonged to Königsbrück, downstream the Pulsnitztalmühle was on the Meissner side. In the first third of the 20th century, a cement stone factory was producing in Niederdorf.

In 1907, the Königsbrück military training area was laid out in the heather north and east of the village. Within four years, the new warehouse was built in the heath between the Vorwerk Steinborn, Weißbach and the mountain houses . In 1910 a waterworks was built for the barracks at the Grünmetzmühle and a sewage treatment plant south of Steinborn in the Pulsnitz valley. The Vorwerk Steinborn, which had been bought up by the German Reich, was transformed into an army catering branch. At the end of the 1920s, the expansion of the New Camp began, during which time a high storage building for the Army Supply Branch was also built.

In the course of the expansion of the Königsbrück military training area decided in 1937, the Steinborn community was dissolved in 1938. The properties were bought by the German Reich and the 402 residents were relocated. The place was evacuated on April 1, 1938. The 467 hectare parish corridor became part of the military training area.

After the end of the Second World War, the military training area was seized by the Soviet occupying forces . From June 25, 1945, Silesian refugees settled in the undestroyed villages of Bohra , Steinborn, Krakau and Naundorf , which were in the military area . The local commander of the Red Army in Koenigsbrück ordered the evacuation of Kraków on August 3, 1945, and for military reasons he also prohibited repopulation of the villages of Sella , Zochau and Rohna . This left Steinborn, along with Bohra and Naundorf, one of the three villages on the military training area that were repopulated after the war. In 1947 Steinborn and Bohra merged to form a rural community Steinborn-Bohra. In October of the same year Bohra and Steinborn were evacuated again at the instigation of the GSSD and the Steinborn-Bohra community dissolved. The village was later shot to death. The corridors of Steinborn-Bohra have belonged to Königsbrück since 1957.

Only the storage building of the Army Supply Branch on the site of the former Vorwerk is preserved. On the Costanosellari 2008 was Costanosellari tower built.

Population development

year	Residents
1777	9 possessed men, 3 gardeners, 10 cottagers
1834	184
1871	217
1890	213
1910	237
1925	258
1938	402
1946	402

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.koenigsbrueck.de/truppenuebungsplatz.html
2. ↑ https://www.koenigsbrueck.de/tuep-ab-1919.html
3. ^ Steinborn in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '  N , 13 ° 52'  E